It's hard to imagine a more thoroughly ignorant statement than this:
“The discipline of science is one where the facts, once they are peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals, are fixed. They’re not open to interpretation, or at least not much.”
That's the opinion of Jeffrey Kluger and Justin Worland, writing in "How a war on science could hurt the U.S.---and its citizens." in Time magazine.
The truth, of course, for these two apparent neophytes to science, is quite the … [Read more...]